Sophos AntiVirus

Is this rated very highly for home PC users?

We have it at work, and with the licenicing, it allows each copy to be
installed on an employee's home machine.

Only problem i can see is the auto updates, have to wait for the CD once a
month since theres no web updates, unless work installed the web dates on
the server to allow people to auto update (not likely).

It seems to be better than norton '03 which i currently have installed,
doesnt hog system resources as much.

Any comments?

Cheers
Steve

"sds" <sds@dddddddd.com> wrote...
> Is this rated very highly for home PC users?

Probably expensive. It's marketed for corporate use.

> We have it at work, and with the licenicing, it allows each copy to be
> installed on an employee's home machine.

Same here.

> Only problem i can see is the auto updates, have to wait for the CD once a
> month since theres no web updates, unless work installed the web dates on
> the server to allow people to auto update (not likely).

I don't know what you mean. You can download the whole package. Your
company should supply a username and password. Updates are available
daily in the form of small text files (IDEs) without the need to log
in.

> It seems to be better than norton '03 which i currently have installed,
> doesnt hog system resources as much.

I've never used Norton, but I use Sophos. It's good software.

"Ant" <not@home.today> wrote in message
news:buf0m9$e37$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> "sds" <sds@dddddddd.com> wrote...
<snip>
> I don't know what you mean. You can download the whole package. Your
> company should supply a username and password. Updates are available
> daily in the form of small text files (IDEs) without the need to log
> in.

Can you elaborate on this? provide a link to some info or something? from
what i read there are no online updates available for users at home?

>
> > It seems to be better than norton '03 which i currently have installed,
> > doesnt hog system resources as much.
>
> I've never used Norton, but I use Sophos. It's good software.
>
>

In Message-ID:<HxVOb.4017$i14.54169851@news-text.cableinet.net> posted
on Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:41:43 GMT, sds wrote:

>
>"Ant" <not@home.today> wrote in message
>news:buf0m9$e37$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> "sds" <sds@dddddddd.com> wrote...
><snip>
>> I don't know what you mean. You can download the whole package. Your
>> company should supply a username and password. Updates are available
>> daily in the form of small text files (IDEs) without the need to log
>> in.
>
>Can you elaborate on this? provide a link to some info or something? from
>what i read there are no online updates available for users at home?

http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/

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Bart

"Bart Bailey" <me2@privacy.net> wrote...
> on Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:41:43 GMT, sds wrote:

>>Can you elaborate on this? provide a link to some info or something?
>>from what i read there are no online updates available for users at
>>home?
>
> http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/

And the monthly engine update is here:
http://www.sophos.com/support/updates/

sds wrote:
> Is this rated very highly for home PC users?
>
> We have it at work, and with the licenicing, it allows each copy to be
> installed on an employee's home machine.
>
> Only problem i can see is the auto updates, have to wait for the CD once a
> month since theres no web updates, unless work installed the web dates on
> the server to allow people to auto update (not likely).
>
> It seems to be better than norton '03 which i currently have installed,
> doesnt hog system resources as much.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
>


Steve,

The smallest license Sophos offers is a 5 user license.

Your company's corporate site license should also include use of the
Remote Update tool. RU is a Windows utility. I suggest that you ask
your company IT dept if they have a webshare setup for RU use. RU is an
agent that will run on your PC, check of updates once an hour, DL and
automatically install all engine updates and IDE's. RU must point to a
company-provided Sophos directory. It will not pull updates directly
from Sophos.

JB

"JB" wrote:
> sds wrote:
> > Is this rated very highly for home PC users?
> >
> > We have it at work, and with the licenicing, it allows each copy to be
> > installed on an employee's home machine.
> >
> > Only problem i can see is the auto updates, have to wait for the CD once
a
> > month since theres no web updates, unless work installed the web dates
on
> > the server to allow people to auto update (not likely).
> >
> > It seems to be better than norton '03 which i currently have installed,
> > doesnt hog system resources as much.
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Steve
> >
> >
>
>
> Steve,
>
> The smallest license Sophos offers is a 5 user license.
>
> Your company's corporate site license should also include use of the
> Remote Update tool. RU is a Windows utility. I suggest that you ask
> your company IT dept if they have a webshare setup for RU use. RU is an
> agent that will run on your PC, check of updates once an hour, DL and
> automatically install all engine updates and IDE's. RU must point to a
> company-provided Sophos directory. It will not pull updates directly
> from Sophos.
>
> JB
What my company does is send me an email every month with a password
(changes every time) incorporated into a URL to their AV downoad page in the
internet. This allows me to download the update file and which I then have
to run like I was using the CD-ROM. The file is typically 14 or 15 MB but as
I have ADSL that's no problem to me. Ask your company if they provide a
similar service.

There apparently are two ways to automatically update Sophos; RU Tools and
SAVAdmin. I'm not sure about the difference between them nor have I managed
to understand how to set up automatic updating inside my home LAN where a
number of family members' machines now monthly require my personal
attention. The LAN consists of W98SE peer to peer networked PC's and a
laptop. Any helpfull suggestions appreciated!

Paul

> Your company's corporate site license should also include use of the
> Remote Update tool. RU is a Windows utility. I suggest that you ask
> your company IT dept if they have a webshare setup for RU use. RU is an
> agent that will run on your PC, check of updates once an hour, DL and
> automatically install all engine updates and IDE's. RU must point to a
> company-provided Sophos directory. It will not pull updates directly
> from Sophos.

You can get automatic updates (called IDE-files) for the installed
version with Sweep Update. It is available from my homepage
http://home.htp-tel.de/drackow and free for personal use. The
IDE-updates are small and available on a daily basis for engines
(monthly editions) which are not older than 3 months.

Sweep update allows you to keep Sophos Sweep as current as possible,
because Sophos releases small IDE-updates as soon as new viruses
require them. Since they are very small (appx. 10-30KB for all the
IDEs, zipped), you can update daily or even more often if the need
arises.

Regards,

Detlev

On 1 Feb 2004 08:44:10 -0800, detlev.rackow@gmx.de (Detlev Rackow)
wrote:

>> Your company's corporate site license should also include use of the
>> Remote Update tool. RU is a Windows utility. I suggest that you ask
>> your company IT dept if they have a webshare setup for RU use. RU is an
>> agent that will run on your PC, check of updates once an hour, DL and
>> automatically install all engine updates and IDE's. RU must point to a
>> company-provided Sophos directory. It will not pull updates directly
>> from Sophos.
>
>You can get automatic updates (called IDE-files) for the installed
>version with Sweep Update. It is available from my homepage
>http://home.htp-tel.de/drackow and free for personal use. The
>IDE-updates are small and available on a daily basis for engines
>(monthly editions) which are not older than 3 months.
>
>Sweep update allows you to keep Sophos Sweep as current as possible,
>because Sophos releases small IDE-updates as soon as new viruses
>require them. Since they are very small (appx. 10-30KB for all the
>IDEs, zipped), you can update daily or even more often if the need
>arises.
>
>Regards,
>
>Detlev

loads of info on the sophos site on how to update

company license lets people who are licenced to use it at work, use it
at home - simple logic - prevents me bringing a virus in from home.

My solution - the following batch file using url2file - google search
will find it

cheers

CD C:\SOPHIDE
DEL *.IDE
DEL IDES.EXE
Url2File http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.exe ides.exe
IDES.EXE
COPY /Y *.IDE C:\Progra~1\Sophos~1\
NET STOP SWEEPSRV.SYS
NET START SWEEPSRV.SYS

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Alastair Smeaton

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 20:23:28 +0000, Alastair Smeaton
<smeaton@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

>loads of info on the sophos site on how to update
>
>company license lets people who are licenced to use it at work, use it
>at home - simple logic - prevents me bringing a virus in from home.
>
>My solution - the following batch file using url2file - google search
>will find it
>
>cheers
>
>CD C:\SOPHIDE
>DEL *.IDE
>DEL IDES.EXE
>Url2File http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.exe ides.exe
>IDES.EXE
>COPY /Y *.IDE C:\Progra~1\Sophos~1\
>NET STOP SWEEPSRV.SYS
>NET START SWEEPSRV.SYS

Hello Alastair,

that is the classical way to do it and recommended by Sophos - btw:
They offer sget.exe which works similar to Url2file. However, your
batch does not care about the installed release of Sweep, so you have
to care about the exact date when Sophos switches ides.exe's content
to that of the newest version. Sweep Update will determine the
installed version and download the specific IDEs for this version. It
contains information about the releasedates as far as Sophos documents
them on their webpage in advance and remind the user that there is a
new version, but continue to download the corresponding IDEs for the
installed version as long as Sophos offers updates for it.

Not every company offers their users the latest version the moment
they receive it from Sophos or download it with EM.

Bye,

Detlev